#air-conditioning — Public Fediverse posts

Europe can do better than US-style air conditioning

"Heat not only saps productivity, it also disrupts work and home life and can be deadly to vulnerable people. But Europe should think before it adopts wholesale the “dripping box” system...Rather than millions of private systems competing for electricity and pumping out waste heat, a city can manage thermal energy as it does water or power: through a shared network."

https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/0744920b-a7e9-4edf-be8a-d1379e70bd7e

#Environment #Cities #AirConditioning

What is the #probability of being in two different #houses at the time when the central #AC broke? In two different cities. Within a two month period (40 days from start of the 1st failure to the start of the second.)

Seriously, I'd like to know.

#centralairconditioning #airconditioning #broken #math #mathquestion

European heatwave killed more people in region than height of COVID — and locals still refuse AC

More than 16,000 people died in a single week during Europe’s heatwave in late June — and in…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #airconditioning #Belgium #Europe #Heatwave #World #Worldnews
https://www.newsbeep.com/697759/

Heat Deaths in a ‘Cold’ Country Are a Warning to the Rest of Europe

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/15/world/europe/heat-deaths-in-a-cold-country-are-a-warning-to-the-rest-of-europe.html

The Bizarre Debate Over Europe’s Air Conditioning (/Prof Gio | Giordano Scarciotti)

https://piefed.social/c/europe@feddit.org/p/2274960/the-bizarre-debate-over-europes-air-conditioning-prof-gio-giordano-scarciotti

@jcrabapple I think the research for new cooling technology needs to be in tandem with better design of the structures they need to cool. Most of our buildings use materials, colors and architecture that probably lower the efficiency of cooling, especially with climate change. Future homes should probably be designed differently with different materials, although that won’t help existing structures as much. #airconditioning #heatwave

Heat wave
cartoon by Toso Borkovic
https://www.cartoonmovement.com/cartoon/heat-wave-13

#heatwave #Europe #airconditioning #eu #cartoon #politicalcartoon #climatecrisis #climate #climatemergency #EUpolitics #TosoBorkovic #EUpol #HeatStress

Cities Need Heat Sewers

I think cities should create something like a sewer system for heat.

Air conditioners just move heat from inside buildings to the street, while adding even more heat from the electricity they consume. In dense cities, thousands of AC units collectively intensify the urban heat island effect, making the outdoor environment significantly hotter than surrounding rural areas. This, in turn, forces those same systems to work harder, creating a feedback loop of rising temperatures and energy demand.

This reminds me of how human waste was once managed individually and often simply dumped into the street. Eventually, cities built shared sewer systems, and we are all better off for it. A “heat sewer” could work similarly: buildings would send waste heat into a district network that transports it away, stores it underground, or routes it to places that need hot water or heating.

Instead of every building dumping heat into the street, heat could become a resource managed by a municipal utility.

📬 Wrote a new post for my Heatshed newsletter on air conditioning in Europe and the U.S. and lessons we can learn from each other. I'll post monthly after this, but I had been mulling this one over all summer! Here's a quick preview:

"So the United States’ lesson for Europe isn’t simply “install units.” It’s that our high adoption rate measures equipment, not necessarily protection, and a country can reach 90% and still not protect everyone. Those who can install air conditioning in Europe and across the world will increasingly do so, so let’s make sure we don’t leave behind those who cannot."

Read more: https://heatshed.substack.com/p/air-conditioning-is-not-a-guarantee #extremeheat #heatwave #Europe #airconditioning #passivedesign

So I'm tracking energy consumption. I also tracked the AC here.

The machine runs the entire day on hot days, where hot >32 degrees C.

It reaches a 10-15 temperature differential to the outside.

It's consumption over the year is negligible and below what the coffee machine consumes.

#klimaanlage #airconditioning #qualityoflife

Nachdem heute wieder das Fest des heiligen St. Midea von Portasplittus gefeiert wird:

Wer kann mir günstige Bezugsmöglichkeiten für dicke Polycarbonatplatten ab 8mm um etwa 1qm, transparent rum nennen?

Aktuell sehe ich nur Optionen die auf um die 100-200€ hinaus laufen.

#stmidea #midea #porta_split #portasplit #airconditioning #splitac #klimaanlage #polycarbonatepanels #lexan #makrolon #acrylglasplatten

Opinion | 112 Degrees in Paris, Flames Near Bordeaux. France Can’t Go On Like This.

This summer has unleashed a special kind of hell on France: not just several heat waves with temperatures…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #AgricultureandFarming #Airconditioning #drought #environment #Europe #France #globalwarming #HeatandHeatWaves #ParisFrance #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom #Wildfires
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/716873/

@kladtiator @dielinke @dielinke_hannover @sven_giegold @GrueneBundestag #climate #climatechange #airconditioning #schule
#merz und sein #kabinett sollten bei sommerlichen Temperaturen einfach den ganzen Tag auf der Dachterrasse des Kanzleramts arbeiten und die Ministerpräsidenten der Länder mit ihren Kabinetten an vergleichbaren Orten…dann würde sich einiges ändern. Entsteht ein Sonnenstich dabei, merken wir das wahrscheinlich gar nicht. POLITIKER AD SOLEM!

Europe Is Warming to America’s Obsession With AC

Europe may finally be admitting Americans had a point. For decades, much of the continent treated air conditioning…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Business #ac #airconditioner #Airconditioning #Americans #Britain #businessinsider #Europe #Europeans #FRANCE #heatwave #heath #hotjune #spain #summer #year
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/785508/

Rosie on the House: Seeking the comfortable desert dwelling

What can centuries of homes teach us? The Puebloans built clustered stone-and-earth communities with thick walls, small windows…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Artsanddesign #Airconditioning #arizona #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #building #buildingengineering #buildinginsulation #Climate #courtyard #desert #Design #Entertainment #heat #Humidity #PassiveCooling #Thermodynamics
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/784055/

#AirConditioning is not enough to keep people cool — can scientists find an alternative? https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02273-2

Ik heb wat prepensioen dat ik wilde investeren in airconditioning. Het eerste (grote) bedrijf gebeld, maar die zitten al dusdanig volgeboekt dat ze geen nieuwe klanten meer aannemen. Ik heb gelukkig nog een tweede bedrijf op m'n lijst.
Of anders dan toch maar een mobiel apparaat op de kop zien te tikken? Als die nog leverbaar zijn.
#Airconditioning

Now ya know.

#hotwife #Humor #airconditioning

#AirConditioning : “ #Japanese engineers are still holed up in labs, chasing that 0.1-degree temperature precision, pondering how to make the #AC last five more years.

Meanwhile, the #Chinese side's already crowdsourcing on forums: "What's your biggest headache? Installation? Inspections? Neighbor complaints? Alright, we'll sidestep every single one for you."

One's crafting the perfect " #industrialproduct," figuring out how to educate you on it.

The other's delivering a thoughtful " #servicepackage," zeroing in on exactly where it hurts.

This isn't products duking it out—this is two entire mindsets delivering a #dimensionalsmackdown.”

https://x.com/szygls/status/2078464411992481989?s=46

I thought that, in a free market, the absence of supply of portable air conditioner units combined with huge demand would cause a factory to open in Europe, but apparently not.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Resupply-Allegedly-200-000-Portasplit-air-conditioners-on-their-way-to-Europe-11365259.html

"Midea has doubled its production capacity at its Guangzhou plant to up to 6,000 units daily after receiving a large order for 160,000 Portasplit units. The capacity increase was carried out in record time"

#industry #economy #AirConditioning #AirConditioner

How to Keep the Air Inside Safe From Wildfire Smoke

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/realestate/indoor-air-quality-wildfire-smoke-safety.html

For those of you in the smoky areas of the US and Canada: I just learned from another post that you should check your AC if you have a window air conditioner. It should be on "recirculate" mode, so that it is recirculating air already within your house instead of pulling air from outside. If it doesn't have a recirculate mode and it's pulling air in from outside, turn it off to keep the smoke out.

Central air conditioning systems always recirculate, so if you have that, you don't need to worry about it.

#WildfireSmoke #AirConditioning

Which European countries use the most energy for cooling?

The last three years were the hottest on record globally.

Energy consumption for cooling has also been rising, with household consumption in the EU doubling in just six years.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260716-which-european-countries-use-the-most-energy-for-cooling?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Europe #Energy #AirConditioning #ClimateChange #ElectricityConsumption #Heatwave #Cyprus #Malta #Albania #Greece